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Job opportunities! The Flavour and Fragrance industry, as well as the sectors it serves – the food, beverage, cosmetic, household products industries – offers many interesting, challenging and rewarding career paths. For jobs offered and potential candidates, visit SAAFFI's Employment Opportunities page...
SAAFFI's PSTCs! Precise Short Training Courses (PSTC) These inexpensive, half-day courses aim to give attendees a good insight as well as practical knowledge about specific food ingredients and various other business issues. Although in the form of lectures, the set-up encourages interaction...
SAAFFI represents all aspects of this fascinating industry.Membership is open to all manufacturers and suppliers of flavourings and / or fragrance compounds as well as raw material and service suppliers to this industry....
One of Kellogg's oldest brands, Special K, is also turning out to be one of its "newest" brands. That's because the cereal maker has continued to expand and actually reinvent the brand for a decade now — including some major just-announced innovations. [Click pic to...
Nestlé has opened the most advanced laboratories of their kind in the food industry to study food-borne pathogens that are harmful to human health.
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Malnutrition is a major issue for millions of poor South Africans, yet half of the country's fresh produce is wasted. For some perspective, if the wasted fruit and vegetables were 10kg bags of potatoes, every person in Johannesburg could receive a bag of...
When it comes to produce, potatoes are actually one of the best nutritional values on the market, according to a new study published in the latest edition of the journal PLOS ONE....
American researchers have found that the popular artificial sweetener, sucralose, can modify how the body handles sugar. The study is available online in the journal Diabetes Care....
It is not often that, in global terms, there are three major pieces of M&A in the same sector in the space of three weeks. The sector in question is organic baby food....
Is wine is adapting to the changing consumer? Mintel analyst, Jonny Forsyth, argues that this is currently not the case and that in his country, the UK, the industry is led too much by its own prejudices and mores rather than those of the consumer....
Chinese baijiu, a flammable, pungent white liquor averaging a 110-proof hit (55% alcohol), is the world's most consumed form of liquor thanks to its popularity in China, but for the first time distillers are looking to develop export markets....
Nasa has given a six-month grant to a company developing the world's first 3D food printer. The printer will use proteins, carbohydrates and sugars to create edible food products — in realisation that as current food systems won’t supply 12...
South Africa’s fast food industry is an engine of growth and the future prospects of its players look good. Despite poor macroeconomic conditions, South Africa’s growing middle class is cash-rich and time-poor - and choosing quick-service dining over formal restaurants and preparing food at...
SA's ostrich farming industry is picking itself off the canvas after being floored by avian flu outbreaks over the past two years. "The situation is better than it was a year ago," says Ostrich Business Chamber CEO Piet Kleyn....
Shuanghui International Holdings, China’s biggest pork producer, has agreed to acquire Smithfield Foods for about $4.72 billion to boost supplies for the nation that’s the biggest consumer of the meat....
According to Rabobank, the rise of the ‘hybrid consumer’ in First World markets is an emerging trend with significant implications for food companies, food retailers and food service companies. ...
Prunes have never been the most tantalising of snacks – due in part, no doubt, to their use as a natural constipation remedy. But they're making a massive comeback, thanks to celebrity chef endorsement, and as science shows they're excellent for bone health, full of...
Chocolate bags are a massively successful candy category, in the UK and elsewhere: bite-size versions of the choc bar treats people know and love, for example, Bitsa Wispa, Galaxy Bits and Aero Bubbles. They may be very good for chocolate sales, but others...
Michael Pollan, the American food writer and campaigner, says eating together round the table every night is the way children learn best how to get along in the wider world. [Whatever your opinion of Pollan, this is a fabulous, heartening essay/article on his latest book...